President Ram Nath Kovind (PTI photo)
President Ram Nath Kovind addressed a joint session of the Parliament on Friday to mark the beginning of the Budget Session and paid tributes to late President Pranab Mukherjee and also lauded India for its massive vaccination drive.
President Ram Nath Kovind said, “It is a matter of pride that India is running the biggest vaccination programme in the world. Both vaccines of this programme are made in India. In this crisis, India shouldered its responsibility towards mankind and provided lakhs of doses of vaccines to several nations.”
Speaking on the contentious issue of retaining the Minimum Selling Price (MSP) regime, President Kovind said, “We implemented the Swaminathan Commission report on MSP. We are focussing on micro irrigation.”